Sexuality and Catholocism
I didn't really know what to title this thing, so there's as close as I can get. Last night, I attended the discussion panel about contraceptives being handed out at King's College, and my personal view is that it was an awesome discussion. I must say, our president is pretty funny, and same with the residence representative. Although whenever Dr. Brody spoke, he lost me. I had no clue what he was talking about half the time. Too advanced for me. Hehe. Anyways, I thought it was great that all kinds of students showed up, from various religions and beliefs. The panelists, I thought, argued, or presented rather, their reasons for banning contraceptives from being distributed by the Catholic school very well.
A few reasons I picked up on was pretty much the sanctity of marriage and how sex should be between two people who love each other and are married, for a couple of reasons:
1. It prevents having children being born into an unstable or unprepared family, basically. It makes the conditions of raising a child much worse if the two people aren't married or even know each other very well.
2. It presents the spreading of STDs. This is because if two people have sex when they're married, and only when they're married, it is virtually impossible to spread or get an STD. Makes sense to me.
Also, if that didn't matter to you, they also presented the reason that if King's lost its status as a Catholic school, we would be shut down and would have no funding, our degrees wouldn't count for anything, everyone would lose their job, it would be hard for students to tranfer, etc......
I also thought it was cool that it was open to the audience to ask questions, make comments and other stuff. Everyone was really into the discussion and it kept going on, so finally, the host had to end it even though several other people still wanted to talk. Overall, it was a really good presentation and I almost fully agree with the panelists on this issue. Sorry I don't have a whole lot of information. I have to write a thing on this, so I'd rather do it there than here.
Have a good night everyone! :)
A few reasons I picked up on was pretty much the sanctity of marriage and how sex should be between two people who love each other and are married, for a couple of reasons:
1. It prevents having children being born into an unstable or unprepared family, basically. It makes the conditions of raising a child much worse if the two people aren't married or even know each other very well.
2. It presents the spreading of STDs. This is because if two people have sex when they're married, and only when they're married, it is virtually impossible to spread or get an STD. Makes sense to me.
Also, if that didn't matter to you, they also presented the reason that if King's lost its status as a Catholic school, we would be shut down and would have no funding, our degrees wouldn't count for anything, everyone would lose their job, it would be hard for students to tranfer, etc......
I also thought it was cool that it was open to the audience to ask questions, make comments and other stuff. Everyone was really into the discussion and it kept going on, so finally, the host had to end it even though several other people still wanted to talk. Overall, it was a really good presentation and I almost fully agree with the panelists on this issue. Sorry I don't have a whole lot of information. I have to write a thing on this, so I'd rather do it there than here.
Have a good night everyone! :)
6 Comments:
At 10:16 a.m.,
Abe said…
With a kid on the way, this post struck me from a new dimension. As a parent, no matter how much of an angel your daughter is, wouldn't it be more comforting to know she was on birth control, or had it available? Just a thought.
At 11:52 p.m.,
Aleah said…
I wouldn't want my daughter to need to be on birth control in the first place. Birth control is available everywhere anyways, so what's it matter if it's not being handed out at res?
At 2:50 p.m.,
Abe said…
Of course I wouldn't want my daughter to need to be on birth control. However, in my line of work I've run into more than one pregnant teen who got pregnant on the first occaission, and many of these occaissions involved judgement-altering substances. It's scary knowing that one screw-up in the alcohol department (and that's pretty easy for some of us) can lead to this life-altering experience of teen parenthood. Enough to terrify any parent.
But, this is a completely different perspective from what's being discussed in res. In res, we know the kids are doing it, so isn't best to make sure they're doing it safely? And isn't the safest way to have the b/c readily available? I'm sure that studies have shown the importance of the availability of condoms, you're more likely to run down the hall than to bus down to Shoppers.
At 9:29 p.m.,
Aleah said…
Yeah but the school is objecting to students providing it, say in one of the student's rooms or something like that, they're objecting to the Catholic system handing out birth control to res people. I think it's a logical reason not to because of the whole "the school could lose its funding" thing. I know very well people make stupid decisions when they're drunk/under any other influence. But I still don't think that it's the school's problem they're making unwise choices. I'm usually not very conservative or "traditional" when it comes to these sort of things, but I don't know, I feel kinda strongly about this.
At 9:32 p.m.,
Aleah said…
*sorry they're NOT objecting to students providing it within themselves (first sentence)
At 9:59 p.m.,
Abe said…
Oh sure, if you're just going by the "we'll lose our funding and get shut down" argument, I totally agree...definitely logical. It's the other reasons that I was objecting to, but overall I'd have to agree because of the funding issue.
As for schools or res's being responsible for unwise choices, I think myself, many parents and most lawyers would have to differ on that one. Whenever someone is living in your facilities there is some sense of responsibility, whether that means not selling booze in the caf or making sure the heat works. Of course, how far that responsibility goes would be debated (ie. birth control).
And, don't worry about having views on some issues that are different than your gestalt...just because you allign with one perspective on a lot of things, doesn't mean you allign with it on all things.
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